PENDLETON — The Oregon East Symphony will present the Chamber Music Festival, its annual pairing of chamber music with wine and hors d’oeuvres, at 6:30 p.m. on Saturday, April 13, at the Vert Club Room, 345 SW Fourth St.

This year’s festival will feature classical musicians from northeast Oregon, southeastern Washington and eastern Idaho. Members of the Oregon East Symphony board of directors and Reception Committee chaired by Mireya Wolf will provide a spread of wine and hors d’oeuvres for concertgoers to enjoy while the music is performed.

The Chamber Music Festival is a limited capacity event and seating is only available by purchase. For more information about OES or to purchase tickets, visit www.OregonEastSymphony.org, call 541-276-0320 or stop by the office, 345 SW Fourth St., Monday-Thursday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

The festival will feature a brief opening performance by the Oregon East Symphony’s Youth Chamber Collective, which is an opportunity for OES Youth Orchestra students to create their own chamber music groups (string duo, trio or quartet), provide public performances and receive coaching from OES’s Education Director Zach Banks.

Beethoven

The first full-length piece on the program will be Beethoven’s “Trio No. 4” arranged for oboe, bassoon and piano.

Oboist Andrew Carder is a resident of the Tri-Cities and plays in many regional professional and community orchestras, including Inland Northwest Musicians, Oregon East Symphony, Walla Walla Symphony and the Mid-Columbia Symphony.

Bassoonist Kyle Ketchersid, also of the Tri-Cities but originally from Hermiston, has performed in regional college and university ensembles and is a current member of the 234th Army National Band in Portland.

Pianist Matt Cooper is professor emeritus of piano at Eastern Oregon University and has been a featured soloist with the Oregon East Symphony, Grande Ronde Symphony, Inland Northwest Musicians and the “Gloria” Chamber Orchestra in Khabarovsk, Russia.

Debussy

OES Concertmaster Lisa Roberston and current EOU piano professor Mio Aioke will perform Claude Debussy’s “Sonata for Violin and Piano.” Robertson lives in Enterprise and, in addition to her position with OES, is a member of the Siletz Bay Music Festival Orchestra and serves on the board of the Oregon Chapter of the American String Teachers Association.

Before coming to La Grande to teach piano at EOU, Aoike spent her early years studying and participating abroad in Japan, Jordan and Venezuela, eventually receiving her doctorate in piano performance at the University of Oregon.

Mozart

Husband and wife duo James and Ruth Cook will perform Mozart’s “Sonata in C Major for Four Hand Piano, K. 521.” James has taught piano and directed music programs at Willamette University, University of Wyoming and Boise State University. In 2017, he performed Mozart’s “Piano Concerto No. 21 in C” with the Oregon East Symphony. Ruth received her degree in organ performance from Boise State University and has served as organist and choir director for numerous churches in the Boise area in addition to being a private piano instructor.

Bach

The evening will conclude with former Korean National Orchestra principal cellist Sangwon Shinn Chung, accompanied by pianist Ruth Butterfield-Winter, performing a selection of short pieces, including the Prelude from Bach’s “Cello Suite No. 1,” Astor Piazzolla’s “Libertango,” the contemporary hymn “Love of the Cross” and Ceasar Cui’s ”Orientale.”

Now a resident of the Tri-Cities, Sangwon led an active career as a performer and teacher in Seoul, Korea, including as cello instructor at Kyung-Hee University and music director of the Amerasian Christian Academy.

Before Ruth Butterfield-Winter moved to the Tri-Cities, she was extremely active in the San Francisco Bay Area playing with members of the San Francisco Symphony, and as a soloist with the Monterey Chamber Orchestra, the Redwood Symphony Orchestra and the San Francisco Bay Area Rainbow Symphony. She currently serves as accompanist for the Pendleton Men’s Chorus under the direction of Bill Mayclin.